Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-30
News by telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE STATE OF BUSINESS Fairly Good At The Leading
 GenterS. BLAINE'S FRIENDS IN OHIO Will Stick Fast To Their
 Leader. SOME DAMAGE BY LIGHTNING. A Furious Cyclone In The
 West.
RUslHEss DOING WE'LL.

l Generally Favorable Reports Come In From the Leading Centers.
 NEW YORK, July 29.-Speeial telegrams to Bradstreet's from leading business centers l point to positive increases in the distribution of staple products at Chicago, St. Louis, St.
 Joseph, Quincy and Burlington: Iowa, as compared with preceding weeks. At Chicago l the gains have been most conspicuous in iron, steel and coe1, with full volume in 1 the movement of groceries end dry goods. The after harvest demand at St.. | Louis is better than was expected owing | to rains in the region tributary to | that city end to freer marketing of | crops Kansss City's business for the week 1 has been the quietest for the season with hogs off twenty cents and cattle weak, but with the usual large volume of transactions. At the East the improvement in distribution of dry goods at Nsw York and Boston is the feature. At Pittsburg the heat has checked industrial operations some, and bar iron is dull but firm at the two-cent rate. The heat
 and rains have checked trade at Philadelphia
 and complaints as to the former come as well
 from New Orleans, Cincinnati, Galves-
 
 striking industrial employees in the
 United States in July aggregates nearly sev-
 enteen thousand, against eleven thousand in
 July, 1886. It will take week yet for the
 iron furnaces, idle owing to the late coke
 strik, to blow in. A number of them are
 sold three months ahead. The excess in
 stocks of pig iron July 1, against December
 31 last, are believed to be largely of low
 grade irons. The pig iron markets east have
 not felt the increased demand and $1 per ton
 advance within month noted at the West. The outlook in the
 woolen industry is not improved. The lead ing money markets, except at Kansas City and Boston, are easier. At the former cattle paper is closely scrutinized, and the available supply is declared to
 be inadequate: Funds are going to the country, at New Orleans, more freely at St. Louis, but inappreciably at Chicago.
 customers only with rates high and unchang
 ed. At Philadelphia recent disbursements
 by railway corporations there have tended to ease loaning rates. The total stocks of invis
 ible wheat in the United States on July 1 were 31 ,OOO, GOO bushels and 33 ,000, ,O00 bush els year ago. The present invisible supply is the smallest since July 1, 1882. The reports of railway earnings (sixty-seven roads) for six months for four years past point unmistakably to the heavy increase in mileage.
 The interest excited in tobacco by the heavy advance in p1ices, particularly at the West, hes increased prices on medium leaf at New York but three cents per pound within the month, or about fol:y per cent, while west the advance 2 about five cents per pound. This hes been stimulated largely by reports of a shol5 crop and aided by operators east and west. The relatively higher prices west have caused the reship- ment of one hundred and fifty hogsheads from New York to I Duisyille to take advan- tage of that market. The trade here talk of reshipment from Bremen.
 Speculation in wheat has been more &C., tive. Crop reports and the export movement favor firm prices, but the speculative interest has not been able to revive much since the collapse of the Chicago corner. Receipts of new winter wheat have not reached expectations yet. The English crop promises to be larger than last year, but the Indian c1op is smaller. Wheat is eight cents per brshsl higher at San Francisco.
 The movement of cotton goods at the East on fall trade orders from first and second hands is active and prices are sustained. There is no Improvement in wool or in woolen goods yet. Sugar is dull and depressed except at San Francisco, where it has been advanced to six and and quarter cents. Coffee is quiet.